praca w Europie

RFE/RL: But there are many people there who feel shame at Russia's
actions, and I think they would very much like to see you.
Kancheli: You know, I cannot bring myself to do it. I've told you already: to
me this is like September 11. I could never have imagined it.
I cannot go there because people who were very close to me have believed
this propaganda, and it's very unpleasant for me. But my attitude toward
these people has remained the same, because they are innocent! I repeat this
over and over: if these people had had the power to decide, then everything
would have been all right.
I can see before my eyes scenes of Georgians being expelled from Moscow,
transported out like cattle. I saw that giant military plane land and open its
rear entrance, and people walked out, after having stood for two hours
because there were no seats. Just like they transport cows, so they deported
the Georgians from Moscow.
And in spite of all this, relations between ordinary people remained normal.
They are still normal, and they will continue to be. They definitely will be!
But some time has to pass, that's all. Some time has to pass, and I think
something will change in Russia. Won't there be a time when Russia will go
down the path of civilized life?
RFE/RL: Did Tbilisi play a special role for composers during the Soviet
period? Wasn't it a bit freer?
Kancheli: You know, since Pushkin's time it has been a bit freer in Tbilisi
for all the great men who have come there, and lived there. I won't list them.
I would only like to recall the surnames of recent geniuses who could not live
without Tbilisi, like Pasternak.
RFE/RL: What do you think he would say right now?
Kancheli: You know, when I saw what happened, when I felt it, I thought,
"How lucky are those who did not live to see this and left life before it
happened...." Boris Leonidovich Pasternak is among those fortunate ones. I
don't think any of them could have imagined it. But it's normal: Pasternak
could not imagine what Vladimir Vladimirovich imagines.
url:
http://www.rferl.org/content/Pasternak_Could_Not_Imagine_What_Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Imagines/1199851
.html
the same text in Russian: http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/transcript/464316.html
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